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Welch Stewart H.: J.K. Lasser's New
Rules for Estate, Retirement, and Tax P

J.K. Lasser's New Rules for Estate, Retirement, and Tax Planning

Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii 1. One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 1 Estate Tax Changes 1 Income Tax Provisions 3 Changes to the Standard Deduction 4 Mortgage Interest Deduction 4 Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) Premium Deduction Is Restored 4 State and Local Taxes (SALT) 5 Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Increased 7 Child Tax Credit Enhancements 8 No Tax on Overtime 11 No Tax on Social Security 12 New Deduction for Car Loan Interest 13 New Charitable Contribution Deduction for Non-Itemizers 14 New Charitable Contribution Limitation for Itemizers 15 Changes to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) 16 Clean Energy Tax Credit Phaseout 17 Wagering Losses Rule Modified 17 Educator Expense Deduction Expanded 17 Personal Casualty Losses (Slightly) Expanded 17 Education Provisions 18 Trump Savings Accounts 18 Section 529 Plans 18 Postsecondary and Career Training 19 Rollover to Roth IRA 19 Significant Changes for Student Loans 19 Business Taxes and Expenses 20 Investments 22 2. Estate Planning 25 What Is Estate Planning? 25 The Benefits of Estate Planning 26 The Nightmares of Poor Planning 28 The Myths of Estate Planning 29 Guidelines for Successful Estate Planning 30 3. The Estate Tax System 33 Determining Your Estate Net Worth 33 Your Estate Tax Picture 40 Your Future Estate 43 Overview of Estate-Planning Strategies 44 4. Investment Strategies for Maximizing Estate Growth 47 Growth Strategy with a Safety Net 48 Prioritizing Your Investment Dollars 53 Retirement Planning: Choosing the Best Investment Environments 53 Roth Conversions 56 Some Final Thoughts on Investing 61 5. Retirement Planning: Living Your Dream 63 Your Retirement Requirements 64 Other Considerations 67 Account for Other Sources of Retirement Income 68 Three Quick Retirement Calculations 70 Best Retirement Strategies 71 Reverse Mortgages 77 Social Security and Your Retirement 80 Claiming Strategies to Consider 82 Customizing Your Health Care Plan for Retirement 84 6. You Don't Have a Will? Big Trouble! 89 Property Transfers at Death 90 Transfers via Probate 91 Direct Transfers by Title 94 Other Methods of Property Ownership 99 Choosing the Best Methods of Ownership 100 Setting Estate-Planning Goals 101 7. Where There's a Will, There's Your Way! 103 What Is a Will? 103 Types of Wills 103 Advantages and Disadvantages of Wills 105 Intelligent Decisions Concerning Your Will's Basic Provisions 107 Executing Your Will 119 Where to Store Your Will 120 Other Important Documents 120 Working with Your Attorney 124 When to Review Your Estate Plan 130 8. Using Trusts in Your Estate Plan 133 The Credit Shelter Trust Will 134 Disclaimers 138 Marital Trusts 140 Spendthrift Trust 144 Standby Trust 144 Other Trusts 145 9. Understanding the Living Trust 147 Advantages of Living Trusts 147 Disadvantages of Living Trusts 149 How a Living Trust Operates 150 Transferring Property into Your Living Trust 153 Types of Property Likely to Be Transferred 156 Living Trust Myths 158 Transacting Business with Your Trust 160 10. Using Insurance in Your Estate Plan 161 Life Insurance 161 Using Life Insurance to Replace Income 164 How Much Life Insurance Do You Need? 165 What Type of Life Insurance Is Best for You? 168 Insurance on a Homemaker 169 Insurance on Adult Children 169 How to Get the Best Deal on Term Life Insurance 169 Using Life Insurance to Leverage Your Estate 171 The Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust (ILIT) 172 About Your Cash Values 175 Summary 178 Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance 180 Case Study: How a Couple in Their 50s Used a Hybrid LTC Policy to Protect Retirement Savings 181 Key Takeaways: Long-Term Care Planning in 2026 and Beyond 181 Good Sources for LTC Insurance (as of the publication date for this book) 183 11. Smart Strategies for Gifting Assets to Family Members 185 The Annual Gift Tax Exclusion 185 Unintended Gifts 187 Filing a Gift Tax Return 188 The Lifetime Applicable Exclusion Amount 189 Outright Gifts 189 When the Donee Is a Minor 191 Other Tax-Free Gifts 201 Family Gifts Utilizing Trusts 202 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust 202 Grantor Retained Unitrust 204 Qualified Personal Residence Trust 204 Taking Advantage of Generation-Skipping Transfers 208 Sales to Family Members 211 Loans to Family Members 214 Sales to Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts 214 The Legacy Trust 215 12. Strategic Planning with Charities 225 Outright Gifts to Charities 226 Testamentary Gifts to Charities 229 Gifts Using Charitable Trusts 229 Using Your Charitable Trust for Retirement Planning 232 The Private Foundation 236 13. Family Limited Partnerships 239 General Structure of the Family Limited Partnership 240 Family Limited Partnership Rules 245 14. Succession Planning for the Family Business or Farm 253 Special Estate Tax Benefits for Farmers and Closely Held Business Owners (Ultra-Wealthy) 255 Valuing Your Business or Farm 257 Succession or Sale? 257 Succession Planning: Keeping the Family Business in the Family 258 Maximizing Your Business's Value through a Sale 259 Structuring Your Buy-Sell Agreement 261 Types of Buy-Sell Agreements 261 Funding the Buy-Sell Agreement 262 One Final Strategy-The Employee Stock Ownership Plan 264 15. Asset Protection Strategies 267 The Concept of Fraudulent Transfers 267 Asset Protection for Married Couples 269 A Word about Jointly Held Property 271 Retirement Plans 272 Life Insurance 273 Using Trusts to Protect Assets 274 Using Limited Liability Entities to Protect Assets 276 Use of Multiple Limited Liability Entities 278Foreign Asset Protection Trusts (FAPT) 279 Domestic Asset Protection Trusts (DAPT) 282 16. Personal Business Planning Issues 285 Choosing the Right Entity for Your Business 285 Closing Thoughts 297 Importance of a Business Plan 299 17. The Final Chapter...Or Is It? 301 Financial planning in your 20s 302 Financial planning in your 30s 303 Financial planning in your 40s 304 Financial planning in your 50s 304 Financial planning in your 60s 305 Financial planning in your 70s and Beyond 306 Epilogue-Dealing with Parents and Their Money 309 Appendix A-Professional Advisers 311 Appendix B-Estate Planning Terms 315 Appendix C-IRS Life Expectancy Table 321 About the Author 325 Index 327

A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely: The life-changing personal finance and investment bestseller

How to Own the World

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As today's preeminent doomsday investor Mark Spitznagel describes his Daoist and roundabout investment approach, "one gains by losing and loses by gaining." This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive, and proven approach, gleaned from the 150-year-old Austrian School of economics, that is both timeless and exceedingly timely. In The Dao of Capital, hedge fund manager and tail-hedging pioneer Mark Spitznagel-with one of the top returns on capital of the financial crisis, as well as over a career-takes us on a gripping, circuitous journey from the Chicago trading pits, over the coniferous boreal forests and canonical strategists from Warring States China to Napoleonic Europe to burgeoning industrial America, to the great economic thinkers of late 19th century Austria. We arrive at his central investment methodology of Austrian Investing, where victory comes not from waging the immediate decisive battle, but rather from the roundabout approach of seeking the intermediate positional advantage (what he calls shi), of aiming at the indirect means rather than directly at the ends. The monumental challenge is in seeing time differently, in a whole new intertemporal dimension, one that is so contrary to our wiring. Spitznagel is the first to condense the theories of Ludwig von Mises and his Austrian School of economics into a cohesive and-as Spitznagel has shown-highly effective investment methodology. From identifying the monetary distortions and non-randomness of stock market routs (Spitznagel's bread and butter) to scorned highly-productive assets, in Ron Paul's words from the foreword, Spitznagel "brings Austrian economics from the ivory tower to the investment portfolio." The Dao of Capital provides a rare and accessible look through the lens of one of today's great investors to discover a profound harmony with the market process-a harmony that is so essential today.

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Retirement isn't the end of the road. It's a great escape.

For many Australians, retirement is seen as something to cautiously manage. But what if it could be a bold new chapter created on your terms?

In Retirement: The Great Escape Plan, award-winning financial adviser Jenny Brown challenges outdated ideas of retirement and offers a practical, reassuring roadmap for creating a life that is rich in every sense of the word. Drawing on decades of experience and real stories from clients who have made their own great escape, Jenny explores the emotional, lifestyle and financial realities of leaving work and stepping boldly into what comes next.

In four easy-to-follow parts, Jenny helps you take stock of where you are now, define what freedom looks like to you, and turn long-held dreams into achievable plans. You'll learn how to calculate your personal 'financial freedom number', design a lifestyle aligned with your values, navigate the shift away from work, and make the most of your time, health and independence. This practical book is not about slowing down. It's about living well with clarity, confidence and purpose. 

Whether retirement is on the horizon, already underway, or a long way off, Retirement: The Great Escape Plan will help you approach this new phase of life with optimism and control.

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Retirement, The Great Escape Plan

Understand and navigate the coming tumultuous period of political, societal, and economic unrest In The Great Reset, noted financial expert and multiple New York Times best-selling author John Mauldin helps you understand the enormous and widespread social, political, and financial problems we are facing. Multiple different cycle theories all suggest a crisis coming at the end of the decade. Mauldin enables you to find your own personal path through them, as various crises reach a breaking point in the next few years. Analyzing the theories of leading thought leaders in the field along with viewpoints of his own, Mauldin delivers a nuanced view of historical cycles and what they tell us about the rest of this decade. In this book, readers will learn about the theories of: <ul> <li>Neil Howe, who originally predicted the very conditions we are going through today in the 90s</li> <li>George Friedman, who argues there are actually two geopolitical cycles of 50 and 80 years, and for the first time we are at the end of both concurrently, as well as the revolt against "experts" wanting to control our lives</li> <li>Peter Turchin, who focuses on the overproduction of "elites" and the disparities in income and wealth it creates and forecasts a potentially violent pushback</li> <li>Ray Dalio, who uses a 16-variable model to quantify and predict past and probable future cycles and now suggests a 40% possibility of a civil war</li> <li>Mauldin explains how the explosion of government debt will bring about the End of the Debt SuperCycle and trigger the crises mentioned above</li> </ul> Most importantly, this is ultimately an optimistic book as it predicts a powerful and positive outcome as a period of cooperation, something now inconceivable, develops as it always does during crises and the future is enhanced by amazing new technologies and fabulous opportunities on the near horizon. The Great Restart is an essential, timely read for all individuals and families seeking clarity on the problems plaguing humanity, protection from the chaos, and insight on how we can pave a profitable and better path forward for ourselves, families, friends and countries

How to Successfully Navigate the Coming Social, Geopolitical and Economic Cycles

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How to Be Financially Mindful

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National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

An insightful, wide-ranging analysis of the economic hurdles facing America's higher education system. The US higher education sector faces numerous economic challenges, including the stagnating number of college-age domestic students, geographic mismatch between population growth and the location of colleges and universities, financial pressures, including cutbacks in government support, growing student debt burdens, sticker prices that deter prospective applicants, and the risk of low capital market returns on endowment portfolios. This volume analyzes the responses of students, families, and the financial managers of higher education institutions to these challenges. It presents new insights into the substantial disparities in the financial structure of, and the financial challenges facing, different types of institutions. The volume draws together contributions from financial economics, public finance, and industrial organization, as well as the economics of education.

Financing Institutions of Higher Education

The Bank of England pull back the curtain on how money really works, and what happens when it doesn't. Where does money come from? What gives a £1 coin its value? And whose job is it to actually print banknotes? Most of us think about money every day. But we tend not to think about how weird it is: a totally abstract concept, built entirely on trust, which somehow makes the whole world function. The Bank of England know more about money than most - after all, they are the ones responsible for making sure it works. Now, the Bank answer all the questions about money that you've never thought to ask - from what makes money money, to how private banks create money every time they give out a loan, to what happens to cash when it's past its sell by date (it's often moulded into garden furniture, as it turns out). Along the way, they offer your one-stop guide to how money really works - and where it might be going next.

The Secret Life of the Money System

Money: The Inside Story

This is the book that will protect you from the coming financial crisis. Baby boomers have a lot to lose if they miss the information in this book. Investments will fail, banks will close, 401k will vanish. This book helps you to find an alternative for at least part of your savings and investments. To protect your wealth while you still have a chance. We offer a concise and simplified explanation and understanding of Bitcoin. Complete with practical exercises you can do yourself. So you can survive these changes.

Boomers N Bitcoin

From the creator of the hit newsletter Young Money, a guide for&nbsp; for Gen Z professionals fed up with the traditional career path&nbsp; and ready to rethink their relationship with money, work, and what it means to live well. Jack Raines did everything right: get the grades, get the job, climb the ladder. But somewhere between the meetings and the paychecks, a question crept in—Is this it? What once looked like success started to feel like a trap. So he did the unthinkable: he walked away and decided to do it all differently. What began as a quarter-life crisis turned into a full-on reinvention. In Young Money, Raines exposes the trap so many twenty-somethings fall into—chasing status, salary, and stability without stopping to ask: Is this what I actually want? Is this actually how I want to spend my time? Blending personal stories with cultural insight, he lays out a bold new manifesto for life and money: <ul><li>Time is your most valuable currency.</li><li>Every dollar reflects the hours you traded to earn it.</li><li>Real wealth means buying freedom, not flexing status.</li></ul> With humor and honesty, Young Money is the essential playbook for anyone just starting out in their post college life—and anyone ready to do it differently.

A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties

Young Money

A straightforward investing guide - packed with visual resources - for everyday investors by an experienced and proven wealth manager In Money, Simplified, experienced wealth manager and financial, retirement, and tax planner, Peter Mallouk, delivers an easy-to-follow and powerful new guide to long-term investing. Mallouk has created your passport to financial confidence, drawing on his decades of investing and wealth management experience to walk you through the strategies, technologies, and mindsets you need to understand and apply to create a financially secure future for yourself and the people you love. Money, Simplified clearly identifies the most common - and expensive - investing mistakes made by people at every stage of their investing journeys and shows you exactly how to avoid them. It busts common investing myths, explains some destructive investing biases, and outlines why emotionally driven financial choices are counterproductive (and how to eliminate them). Inside the book: <ul> <li>Accessible advice paired with intuitive visual resources, illustrations, and charts to help you understand the book's simple, powerful strategies</li> <li>Specific advice for navigating bear markets without losing your cool and investing in bull markets where good deals become hard to find</li> <li>Discussions of how new investing platforms and technologies can boost - or shrink - your portfolio's returns</li> </ul> Perfect for everyday investors at any stage of life, Money, Simplified is an invaluable strategy guide for everyone doing their best to build a financially prosperous, secure, and rewarding future.

Money, Simplified

The ultimate guide for young people looking to build long-term wealth in the stock market The New Money Strategy: The Modern Guide to Rational, Long-Term Investing is the ultimate strategy guide to help a new generation of investors harness the power of value investing and the stock market. In this book, Brandon van der Kolk, founder of the popular New Money YouTube channel with more than one million dedicated subscribers, reveals the common mistakes people are making in the markets today and the time-tested strategy to build long term wealth.&nbsp; Readers will find insights on: <ul> <li>How the timeless strategies of legendary investors like Peter Lynch, Guy Spier, and Mohnish Pabrai can be applied to today's stock market</li> <li>Using Warren Buffet's patient and principled stock-picking strategy to build wealth by targeting long-term multibaggers.</li> <li>A step-by-step framework for preparing financially, investing through low-cost index funds and identifying high-quality business at reasonable prices.</li> </ul> The New Money Strategy: The Modern Guide to Rational, Long-Term Investing delivers an essential roadmap for all investors seeking to build long-term wealth in the stock market.

The Modern Guide to Rational, Long-Term Investing

The New Money Strategy

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